Beware of Making Jesus Your Password

INTERVIEW

Is the Way Our Cities Are Designed Keeping Us Apart?
How churches can benefit from a lesson in urban geography.
Interview by Mark Mulder
For all the church's efforts at promoting racial unity in urban America, what if our cities are actually designed to keep us apart? In Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation (InterVarsity Press), urban missiologist David P. Leong considers how the basic building blocks of city life — like neighborhoods, schools, and freeways — sustain fault lines of race and class. continue reading >>

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